SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Jones"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Jones")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 3525 matches on Roles/Actors, 892 matches on Performance Comments, 214 matches on Performance Title, 141 matches on Event Comments, and 120 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Song: Nicholls

Event Comment: Benefit Jones, Numberer; and Taylor, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Event Comment: Benefit Gallant, Rowland, Mrs Shaftoe, Jones. Afterpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #10 12s. 6d.; tickets #103 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Love; Or, The Degenerate Brother

Performance Comment: Principal parts by Wells, Mullart, Lacy, Fielding, Jones, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Martin, Mrs Lindsey, Mrs Nokes, Miss Wood; but edition of 1730 lists: Don Manuel-Wells Sr; Alonzo-Stopler; Pizarro-Wells Jr; Pedro-Fielding; Alvarez-Mullart; Rinaldo-Lacy; Diego-Dove; Hermit-Reynolds; Page-Achurch; Servants-Hicks, Richards; Ismena-Mrs Mullart; Lucina-Mrs Martin; Cleone-Mrs Lindsey; Julia-Mrs Newman; Florella-Mrs Nokes; Prologue, Epilogue-Charles Coffey.
Event Comment: Benefit Jones, the Numberer, and Taylor and Cooper, Boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Event Comment: Benefit Jones (Numberer) and Little (Gallery Boxkeeper). At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With the Original Musick, Songs, and Dances, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: As17310427

Dance: EEnglish Maggot-Rainton, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Jones and Excell. At the Sun Tavern behind the Royal Exchange. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Jones and Allen (Numberers), Little (Gallery Boxkeeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: SScotch Dance-Miss Robinson; The Masqueraders-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: As17331220

Dance: Grand Dance in Momus, as17331231

Song: II: Per le parte del Tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne. IV: Consolati O Bella sung by Miss Arne, Master Arne, and Miss Jones

Performance Comment: IV: Consolati O Bella sung by Miss Arne, Master Arne, and Miss Jones .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: As at HAY 20 Dec. 1733, but in Neighbours Jones replaces Harrington, Leigh replaces Tenoe .

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: Polish Dance, as17340312 Grand Dance in Momus: Les Plaisirs-Essex, Miss Robinson; Swains-Boval, S. Lally, Davenport; Nymphs-Miss Latour, Mrs Walter, Mrs Davenport; Sailor-Nivelon; Lively Lass-Miss Mann

Event Comment: Benefit Boman and Jones. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Scots Dance by Davenport and Mrs Davenport. English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Charke. By particular Desire. Tickets for Mrs Elmy, Miss Packington, Miss Jones also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Music: A new Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke

Dance: III: By Nivelon and Miss Mann. End of Afterpiece: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter

Song: I: A Teneri Affeti by Mrs Cibber and Mrs Barbier. II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Mrs Barbier. IV: Amelia wishes when she dies by Mrs Cibber. V: A new Favourite Italian Song by Mrs Barbier

Event Comment: At the Playhouse in Hampstead. Benefit Miss Jones Sr and Jr. N.B. That the Play may be no Hindrance to the Diversion at the Long Room, we shall begin exactly at 6 o'clock, and end about 8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Dance: Hippisley's Humorous Medley, or Drunken Man

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: A new Dance by Delagarde and Mrs Bullock

Song: III: A Song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre, addressed to the City, sung by Excell. IV: In Italian by Miss Jones

Performance Comment: IV: In Italian by Miss Jones .
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Redfern, Mrs Atkins. Tickets for Trott, Mrs Stockley, Jones taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Flanderkim by Duke and Mrs Ogden

Song: As17350422

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: Parts by Penkethman, Rosco, Kelly, Miss Jones, Mrs Dove, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Roberts, but see17360210.

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: III: Italian Song by Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Jones (The Mayor, Physick, and Ghost)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Epithalamium

Performance Comment: Principal Characters sung by Phillippo Palma, lately arrived from Italy, Miss Isabella Young, Miss Esther Young, Salway, Kelly, Waltz, Mrs Clive, Miss Jones .

Music: An extraordinary Band of Musick is provided. An Organ will be erected on which Mr Roseingrave will accompany the Songs and Choruses

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets for Miss Jones, Gibbs, and Pidgeon taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Howard, Bewly, Jones. Receipts: money #7 6s. 6d.; tickets #164 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Polonese by Mlle De L'Isle. Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers

Event Comment: The New Theatre by the Pound. [From 4 Aug. to 20 Aug. At 1 P.M. and end at Nine. Sometimes it is called Jones' and Lacey's Company. For a puff, see Daily Advertiser, 9 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France By The English: [in It] A Ballad Opera, Call'd The Amorous Old Widow; Or, I Must Have A Comforter: With The Comical Humours Of The Rival Cowards; Or, The Whimsical Lovers

Music: By a Band of Musick just arriv'd from Naples [9 Aug. and afterwards.]

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 24 Jan.: We hear that the new grand Pantomime Entertainment, design'd to be perform'd in a few Days at [lif], was practis'd there on Saturday last before a great many People of Quality and Distinction, who gave particular Marks of their Approbation to every Change, and were highly pleas'd with the Musick, compos'd b Mr Jones

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Jones, the Mayor of Pasquin's Daughter. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. Afterpiece: Written by a Female Politician

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Opera

Dance: Mr Sant[, Dancing-Master, from Chester, who has perform'd several Times at dl] with great Applause, by the Name of the Chesire Boy

Event Comment: Benefit Duck, Rivers, Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: HHornpipe-Ferguson; Fingalian-Smith, Mrs Ogden

Song: TThe Lady's Lamentation, as17370414

Event Comment: Benefit Banks, Duck, Rivers, Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Pantomime-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates